Author: Montague David Eder

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-27

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781330240526

Excerpt from War-Shock, the Psycho-Neuroses in War: Psychology and Treatment As the material for this book I have taken the first hundred consecutive cases of psycho-neurosis which came under my care; the psychoses have been excluded. A certain number of these hundred patients were admitted into the general surgical and medical wards of which I had charge in the earlier stages of the Gallipoli campaign; the larger number were patients who were sent into the special department which was formed later on and entrusted to me. By limiting the detailed observations to a small number of patients, who, however, present collectively the chief varieties in the symptoms and psycho-pathology of war-shock, a better basis is secured for the understanding of this condition than could be obtained by a more general account of larger numbers. No claim is made for regarding the figures given in this book as of universal validity. In medicine, perhaps especially in psychological medicine, mere statistics are, I believe, of little value, and are more prone to occasion erroneous deductions than the detailed records of a few cases. The appendix (pp. 146-152) gives a summary of the ætiology, symptoms and results of treatment of these first hundred patients. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.